It will not reform the civil service.
It will never make collecting tax
from multinational corporations effective.
It will not change the money markets.
Only rarely will it disburse powers downward
from the top in some amended constitution,
though in referenda the vote will be used
to disguise the farming out responcibility without power.
It never softens highly authoritarian governments,
who rhetorically seek approval through votes,
whether the system is absolute monarchy
or rule by military commitee-oligarchy.
But in some civilian peace time economies
you may use your vote to dispose of a party leader
who has lost their touch with the media, and their party
who has not quite got to grips with this yet-
only the party deepest insiders are the first to see it coming.
Such a Party will prove eager to enlist your vote to rubber stamp
their choice of new leader in the ballot box.
So, the sole time we can prove that the votes change
anything is in peacetime, and when the vote exists
to safely get rid of leaders openly past their prime.
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